Online Communication and How it is used in the Classroom

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Online Communicationand How it is used in the
Classroom

• Stephen Russell
• Luke Simon
  Carla Reavis

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Categories of Online Communication

• Blogging/Web Logs
• Newsgroups/Listservs/UseNet
• Instant Messaging

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Weblogs

• Web based publications consisting primarily of
  periodic articles, updated headlines and journal
  entries compiled by the user.
• Where can you create your own Web Log?
• www.typepad.com ? professional
• www.myspace.com ?very simple
• www.xanga.com ? for the younger crowd (We mean
  it)
• www.blogger.com ? even simpler (We even did it)
• www.istcblog.blogspot.com ? heres our Web Log

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Blogging in the classroom

• www.epnweb.org/blogmeister/blog.php?blogger_id251
  
• www.jsriley.typepad.com
• www.pb5th.com

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Newsgroups/Listserv ?USENET
www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node257.html
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Instant Messaging

• www.aim.com
• www.msn.com
• www.messenger.yahoo.com

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Integrating Instant Messaging

• Chatrooms
• - Provide a great discussion type
  atmosphere right at your computer
• -Quick and easy homework help